Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly bending down Sarah picked up the saucepan . |
| 2 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |
| 3 | In that way the Court was perhaps the institution which most successfully stamped its imprint upon the ECSC , and in so doing built up a body of case law , an authority , and legitimacy that could serve as foundations for the future . |
| 4 | Quickly Sophie picked up the telephone and rang through to the house . |
| 5 | Quickly Folly summed up the story of her meeting with Luke . |
| 6 | The more North built up the contras in secret , the more he fretted that liberal Democrats in Congress ( ’ Kerry , Barnes , Harkin et al . ’ ) |
| 7 | A little while later Matilda bought up a bucket of steaming water . |
| 8 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 9 | Because he also enjoys snooker , four years ago Marjorie took up the game , so that they could play together . |
| 10 | Timman won a pawn , then Speelman gave up a second one to create counterplay . |
| 11 | Abruptly Aggie picked up the handles of the flat-cart , then almost growling ‘ Come on ! ’ she pushed it along the road , the child trotting beside her now . |
| 12 | Then Berwick turned up the power to land five 5–1 heat victories in a runaway finish . |
| 13 | Eventually Cinzia turned up a set of steps rising steeply from the street and unlocked a door at the top . |
| 14 | Once again Skaller picked up the two pictures , but only the features of the other boy still held his glance . |
| 15 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |
| 16 | This Fifties comedy was set in a ‘ flea pit ’ cinema called the Bijou where staff turned up the central heating to boiling point in a desert picture to boost ice cream sales . |
| 17 | That was when drought dried up the lawns , playing havoc with lawnmower sales and profits . |
| 18 | At Glasgow , where there was a full-scale riot when police broke up a meeting of 50,000 people at Glasgow Green , shops were ransacked and the police were bombarded with missiles by tenement dwellers . |
| 19 | England always looked dangerous and extended their lead in the 53rd minute when Merson opened up the Polish defence for Bull to slot in the third goal . |
| 20 | He had hardly passed through the swing doors when Massingham drove up the ramp with the Rover . |
| 21 | ‘ There was one particular evening when Jerry sent up a barrage of Verey lights . |